Ashtown

5 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ashtown, from 434 m² to 492,647 m² (49.26 ha, 121.74 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary. 15 neighbouring parcels touch it.

Download the townland as DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings, or as GeoJSON or KML.

• R2Existing Residential (Existing residential)
  Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 7 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G3Natural Areas (Conservation, amenity or buffer space, corridor/belt, landscape)
  Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan
• G4Active Open Space (Active open space)
  Wicklow Town - Rathnew Local Area Plan, Wicklow · 0 parcels The zoning objective in the plan

Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.

• 11 Sept 2024Unconditional

  Part 8 to carry our Road Widening works along Rocky Road, Wicklow Town from Carrig Beag Housing Development to M11 Junction to increase the carriageway width to between 5.5m and 6m throughout along with the introduction of New Pedestrian Footpath along the Roadside of the existing Rockey Road between Carrig Beag Housing Development at the Junction with Ashtown Lane. Public Lighting will be installed along the footpath section. Works include new roadside drainage for surface water. Boundary treatments and accommodation works will be required in certain locations. ( For submission/ observation details please see the development site notice)

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 24365

• 22 Dec 2021Conditional

  circa 22.35m2 single storey extension to the side of an existing 200m2 dormer dwelling and all associated site works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 211551

• 15 Jul 2020Refused

  green coloured palisade style entrance gates and fencing at the entrance to the Old Ashtown Reservoir (from the L5100)

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20677

• 26 Jun 2020N/a

  green coloured palisade style entrance gates and fencing to the Old Ashtown Reservoir (from the L5100

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20608

• 12 Jun 2020N/a

  green coloured palisade style entrance gates and fencing at the entrance to the Old Ashtown Reservoir (from the L5100)

  Retention · Wicklow County Council, 20546

• 30 Jul 2018Conditional

  9.2m long shipping container to provide anglers shelter and storage (22.08 sqm) located on the northern boundary and 3 no detached lakeside anglers shelters (3.30 sqm each) located one on the north, one of the east and one on the south side of the reservoir and all development works

  Permission · Wicklow County Council, 18867

Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.

Designated sites

No designated site (Special Area of Conservation, Special Protection Area, Natural Heritage Area or proposed one) touches the townland of Ashtown.

Recorded monuments

No recorded monument lies in the townland of Ashtown.

Architectural heritage

No building of the National Inventory of Architectural Heritage stands in the townland of Ashtown.

Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).

Radon

At the centre of the townland of Ashtown, about 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home

Landslides

The 1:50,000 map rates the landslide susceptibility here as high, moderately high, moderately low, low. Parts of the land are water.

Terrain model

LiDAR of the Office of Public Works, flown in 2011, at 2 m: tile OPW_3390 (ZIP).

Flooding

The Office of Public Works publishes its flood maps on floodinfo.ie.

Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency, and Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland, both under CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.

No address of the register names Ashtown with five sales or more. The sales of the area are on the page of Co. Wicklow.

Name

Ashtown · Móin na Sruthla

Area

542,152 m² (54.22 ha, 133.97 acres)

Civil parish

Rathnew, and its townlands

Barony

Newcastle

Electoral division

Wicklow Rural, the unit of the census

Census 2022

10,247 people lived in 3,334 households in the Wicklow Rural electoral division. 73% of households owned their home. 56% of homes were built since 2001. 4% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 3% were holiday homes.

Neighbouring townlands

Ashtown, Ballynabarny, Ballynerrin, Ballynerrin Lower, Broomhall, Hawkstown Lower

Placenames

Ashtown on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland

Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address. Old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.